The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #2216 - Luke Bryan
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Catching up in the studio: Vegas residency and meeting Joe’s family
- NANarrator
(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- LBLuke Bryan
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Hey, what's up, Luke? (laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
Good. This has been... Thank... This has been a long time in the making.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, d- I need to thank you for taking care of my family when they came to see your show.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, I hope they had a great time, and-
- JRJoe Rogan
They had a fucking fantastic time.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
But it was also, my daughter was, like, freaked out 'cause she was going to the show. She didn't know if she was gonna get to meet you, and her friend didn't know they were gonna get to meet you either, so-
- LBLuke Bryan
So we, we were able to keep that, uh, uh, keep that a good little, good little, uh, good little secret too, so-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it was cool. They had the best time. They, they came back-
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... beaming, so thank you.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, Vegas, you know, that was wrapping up Vegas, so, uh, yeah. We, uh, that was a, that was a, a fun two years of, of residency there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you do two years there?
- LBLuke Bryan
I did... Yeah, I did two years, uh, 26 shows per year.
- JRJoe Rogan
(exhales)
- LBLuke Bryan
Dude, man, like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Vegas will take a little piece of your soul.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, here-
- JRJoe Rogan
Just a little tiny piece every day. (laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, the thing about it is, like, all of that get to Vegas and, like, you know, you run to the craps table or blackjack table your whole life getting to Vegas. Dude, I got all that. I could... I'm like, I get to Vegas, I'm like, "Man, let's just sit in a room, watch a little sports," and I got, got the gambling out of the system.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's good.
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- 1:32 – 4:49
Luke’s gambling origin story: poker dad, Vegas lessons, and why it ‘checks your mind out’
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you use to... Did you used to gamble a lot?
- LBLuke Bryan
You know, I've always been... I've never been a sports gambler. Ne- uh, my dad, my, uh... But my dad raised me to kind of be a poker player kind of kid. He was a, like a... I mean, I used to joke, if my dad didn't play poker, we'd have never had Santa Claus, you know?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
He... I mean, he was r- I mean, he was just a crazy little poker player and, like, a little pool hustler, and then, uh, and then, um...
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, so he was all in. He was all in with the gambling.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, so one of my dad's fa- one of my dad's famous quotes is, um... So we, we, uh, we... He flies me out to Vegas when I'm 21 or whatever and, man, I had, like... We were in college, and I took, like, 300 or 400 bucks with me, you know, just broke as shit. And, uh, two hours into the trip lose my money and, you know, this was like, well, where we were still had truck phones, you know. I'm not even sure we were, like, toting... No, we certainly didn't have, like, the Motorola Razr where he could just call me, so he just goes looking for him and he calls my hotel room, and I'm... He's like, "Boy, what you doing?" He's real Georg- real southern Georgia. I said, "I done lost all my damn money and he- hell with this place." He goes, "Well, you ain't gonna win it back in the goddamn room." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
So, I mean, once you have that-
- JRJoe Rogan
That mindset?
- LBLuke Bryan
... that mindset in gambling, certainly. I mean, when that's your dad going... And so that's been a famous saying with my buddies, uh, you know, when they, when they're down and out, down two or three grand and they're pouting over the bar, you know, "You're not gonna win it back at the goddamn bar."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
So... But I did... I went through phases where, you know, I, I never really got financially behind when I didn't have money. I would just... I, I controlled it pretty well, and I, I did my two years out there. I never really, uh, had any big beats or anything like that, but I do love to just... Man, I love to just sit there, have a drink, have a cigar and watch dice and cards, 'cause you're just not... You're just sitting there and your mind's checked out.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
It's like no different than, you know, going to the driving range and hitting golf balls or sitting on the bank fishing or sitting in a deer stand, so-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
It's been... But I got out of there. I got all my gambling, at least for now, out of my system. But it was great to meet your kids there, and, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
I really appreciate it. They, they really enjoyed it. And like I said, they were just un- they were blown away. Meeting you, they're like... (exhales)
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, it was a fun show because, um, we got to really do a lot of bells and whistles out there that aren't available on normal shows when you're, you know, um, out touring and stuff, because you're having to take down stuff, be real mobile out there. We put a-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
... put a lot of stuff in the room and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's nice that the, that's one good thing about the residency. You know, you're going back to the same spot over-
- LBLuke Bryan
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and over again.
- LBLuke Bryan
And we had our routine. I mean, I have my, my room and, you know, about 6:30 I'd hop in the shower, run down there and get on stage about 8:30 and knock it out, and 10:30, uh, somewhere at a craps table. (laughs)
- 4:49 – 8:59
Joe’s UFC betting knowledge, new rules, and the dangers of inside info
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm l- I'm lucky I don't gamble. I don't do it. If I-
- LBLuke Bryan
You never got into sports?
- JRJoe Rogan
Nope, nope, nope. I mean, I used to bet on fights. Back in the early days of the UFC I used to bet on fights, and they... One day they made it illegal, but I already stopped doing it 'cause I was like, this is probably not a good thing for me to be betting on things-
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... I'm commentating on 'cause I can't affect the outcome.
- LBLuke Bryan
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
But I sometimes I-
- LBLuke Bryan
But it's still quite close.
- JRJoe Rogan
I also sometimes know some shit.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, there's been a bunch of times. So one of my business partners, I, I would just y- I would tell him to, what to bet on, and we were at, like, 84% at one time.
- LBLuke Bryan
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was crazy.
- LBLuke Bryan
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
For, like, six or seven fights in a row, w- six or seven fight cards in a row, we were about 84%. 'Cause every now and then they would have these guys who were coming in from Japan or from Russia and, uh, the, the oddsmakers didn't know who these guys were. And I was like, "Oh Jesus Christ. Bet the house."
- LBLuke Bryan
And you-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
You already were-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh yeah, I knew those guys.
- LBLuke Bryan
... studying them for... Yeah, you had a-
- JRJoe Rogan
Years. So I knew, I knew everything about these guys. I'm like, "Jesus Christ. Bet the fucking house."
- LBLuke Bryan
Lay, lay up. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, there was a few, like when Anderson Silva came into the UFC, I was like, "Bet the house. Bet the house on the Brazilian."
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh, love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whatever you got, I go, throw it all at this guy.
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You can't fucking lose 'cause when he came into the UFC, he was, like, in his prime. And I got to see him evolve in Japan and then later on in England. And so when he, when he came in the UFC, I think he was a favorite over this guy Chris Lima, who's a really tough guy, but I'm like, "Whatever the, whatever the odds are, fucking throw it all at that guy."
- LBLuke Bryan
I bet y'all. Were you, were you betting with him too at that-
- JRJoe Rogan
No-... if I wasn't betting, and I had already stopped.
- 8:59 – 14:33
Sports betting spiral: big wagers, ‘Uncut Gems’ anxiety, and officiating concerns
- LBLuke Bryan
So, I went my whole life no sports betting. Through college, I mean, my- I'd- through college I'd walk in and my buddies back then, they spliced seven T- eight TVs together, and they're- they got all their-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, God. (laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
They got all their notes-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
And- and I'm like ... And I'm like-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's hilarious.
- LBLuke Bryan
... "Dude, no wonder you're fucking- you got all Ds and you're- you're- you're-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
You're about to get shipped out of college." But I- I survived all that, and, uh, me and a buddy, we started picking two games a- a week, and we would load up. And this was- this was like, um, six years ago, f- uh, five years ago. So, I would load up like $20,000 a game.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ooh.
- LBLuke Bryan
And ... But I- I was strict, and I'd- and I- I had my deal. And yeah, it just, uh, we'd like bet. I mean, just take Alabama in the points in the first half. You do that most of the year, I mean, it was 80%, so we did well, and then my buddy moved away from me and we quit talking about it, and I just ... Then I went rogue for like two years. I was betting like Utah State, uh, uh, you know, the West Coast game, midnight, just throwing bets in, and I was like, "Man, I'm out."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
"So, I'll stop." But, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you see Uncut Gems?
- LBLuke Bryan
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
Dude, that movie tripped-
- JRJoe Rogan
That movie gives you so much anxiety. (laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
That movie tripped me out.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it tripped everybody out there. Uh, what a great movie.
- LBLuke Bryan
Especially if you've dipped your toe into that world-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- LBLuke Bryan
... of like ... But now-
- JRJoe Rogan
Chasing that money.
- LBLuke Bryan
And I've got buddies that do parlays and like I'm not even sure I even understand the inner workings of parlays now.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
And still, I mean, and teasers and all that-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right, right, right.
- LBLuke Bryan
And you know, I'm- I'm so removed from that level of sp- or like l- you know, f- so-and-so's doing four lay- going to get four layups at the half, and man, that- that'll- that's- that's opening up Pandora's box there, so ...
- JRJoe Rogan
It is, and you gotta think there's people that are involved. Like, there's been scandals where referees were involved, where referees were making calls they shouldn't have made, maybe calling fouls they shouldn't have called, and people getting paid. There's so much money being thrown around and, you know, the average referee, what do they make, you know?
- 14:33 – 1:15:33
High-roller gambling culture: Dana White stories and dopamine escalation
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm good friends with Dana White, and, uh, Dana's a, he's a real degenerate.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Like a hard-
- LBLuke Bryan
I love how big... That's the best way to describe-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, he'll describe it that way.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh, yeah. Like, most-
- JRJoe Rogan
I get it from him.
- LBLuke Bryan
They most... Like your big horse racing guys?
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh-huh.
- LBLuke Bryan
They all... Their adjective of themselves is, "I'm a degenerate." That's the first thing they say.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, Jamie and I, Jamie and I went to visit... We went with Shane Gillis and a bunch of other guys. We went to visit Dana while he's gambling. When we got there, he was down $600,000.
- LBLuke Bryan
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I was like, "What is happening here?"
- NANarrator
I heard him say he learned how to play craps because you can bet more.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
Like, you can bet, like, 500K in or something-
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
... or crazy like that. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's so crazy.
- LBLuke Bryan
(inhales deeply)
- JRJoe Rogan
I couldn't... I w- I was getting anxiety just sitting there watching. And so then, then Taylor LaJuan came over, and Dana and Taylor have this deal where Dana teaches Taylor what to gamble and how to do it. They're down $120,000 in, what, five minutes? Five minutes. Five minutes, they're down 120 grand, and I'm just sitting there going, "What the fuck, man?" Look, Dana's rich as shit.
- LBLuke Bryan
Obviously.
- JRJoe Rogan
I t- I know Taylor is wealthy, but there's like a level where you could lose-
- LBLuke Bryan
Well-
- JRJoe Rogan
$125,000 is $125,000.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, yeah. I mean, I've learned kinda like if you're betting 1,000 a hand, you can get down 50-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
... like in-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 20:38 – 26:23
Predators and ‘ballot biology’: wolves in Colorado and grizzly overpopulation debates
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just always been funny to me that, like, Native American reservations are essentially a country inside the country, and they can do whatever the fuck they want. Like, I was just reading about this Colorado wolf deal, you know, where they've, uh-
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... relocated wolves to Colorado, and the Native American reservation let them know, "The moment those wolves get onto our land, we're flying over in helicopters and gunning them down."
- LBLuke Bryan
I was... I, I, I elk hunt every year in Colorado, and, and is that where you've done...
- JRJoe Rogan
I've done Colorado. Most of the years I go to Utah.
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah. Well, first of all, Cam Hanes and I-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
... you know, we, we've got a connection with Cam and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
... just love that guy. But yeah, we... So when I saw Colorado do that, I was like, it's just, like, what, what are we doing, guys?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, whenever you have biology that's getting voted on by people who don't understand it, it should be decided by wildlife biologists. That's it. That's the only people that should decide whether or not things like that happen.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, we can really dive into this, and let's do it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Sure. Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
My thing is... We are so governed in the world of wildlife biology through the states and stuff. They're not gonna let animals... They're not gonna let humans ruin animal populations, I don't think, anymore.
- JRJoe Rogan
No. Of course.
- LBLuke Bryan
If anything's gonna happen, they're gonna mess it up and let animal populations get too big.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
Uh, I was, I was... And I don't know if I... I don't know who to name or whatever, but I was with some guys with Wyoming, and you know, we were talking about grizzly bears.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- LBLuke Bryan
And I said, uh, "Man, you know..." Because they, they brought up, you know, grizzly bear problems, and I said, uh, "Well, what, what, what is the deal?" And they said, "Well, there's 1500 or 14 to 1500 grizzly bears in Wyoming. There needs to be 500 to 600, and, and five of the 1500 are only hunting humans." Like-
- JRJoe Rogan
What?
- LBLuke Bryan
... have totally, have totally-
- JRJoe Rogan
But there's not that many human deaths.
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, uh, you've bet- In Yellowstone, you, uh, if you pay attention, there's about two or three that get, that get-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right, but those 500 grizzly bears that are just hunting-
- LBLuke Bryan
No, five.
- JRJoe Rogan
Five.
- LBLuke Bryan
Five.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, five.
- LBLuke Bryan
Five, not 500.
- 26:23 – 36:38
Luke’s grizzly encounters in British Columbia: close calls and ‘ruined’ relaxation
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, and- and so I went on a, uh, I went on a, uh, salmon trip up in British Columbia and what you s- 99% of your interpretation of a grizzly is this big old fat chunky thing. Well, so we're flying in on these helicopters to go fish the salmon runs that are running up into the mountains of British Columbia and it's an amazing trip. Like, you fly over in the helicopter, you look down, you see the huge schools of salmon, you take your fly rod and you go catch them and drink your beer. Well, the helicopter pilot was like, "Hey, man, we've seen some grizzlies in the area just..." And, you know, at the time, we're like, "Man, this is all part of the, uh-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Experience.
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah, it's like get a- get us kind of going a little bit. Well, we land and the night before, we didn't fish that day, so we'd flown in and drank some wine and dude, you know, my eyes are like fuzzy and we're fishing and I tell my guy I'm with, I'm like, "Hey, I'm gonna go to the helicopter and get a- a beer or something." And- and dude, I get there and I pop my beer and I'm like, I look down the river and I'm like, "Fuck, that is a fucking grizzly coming toward my buddy." And I went, "Jay." And dude, it was slim and like a damn- it was lean and like a greyhound. Not- I- I wouldn't say lean, but it hadn't- it hadn't got all fat-
- JRJoe Rogan
Fattened up.
- LBLuke Bryan
... on salmon yet. Well, it comes down the bank and jumps in and- and we ease back to the helicopter, we look back, here comes another grizzly, literally 30 yards from us. And I'm like... We get there and I had left my beer on the bank and my grizzly sticks his tongue in my beer and then he jumps in the river. I run, grab the beer, drink-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
I'm like, "Grizzly spit." Anyway, the helicopter pilot goes-
- JRJoe Rogan
You did not drink a beer after a grizzly att-
- LBLuke Bryan
I dr- I had a sip of it after. I had to.
- JRJoe Rogan
But that's, like, what-
- LBLuke Bryan
I mean, he's just like-
- JRJoe Rogan
... kind of trichinosis and wild shit are you gonna get from that?
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah, some berry infection or whatever, salmon infection.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, some moose ass.
- LBLuke Bryan
So listen, dude, we get on the helicopter and the pilot's like, "Man, they're- they're getting too comfortable." We take off, fly a mile down the river. I- I had already had my fly rod together, I never broke it down, so I sat it in a little basket and we land. I take off about 200 yards, start fishing. And I had- I had- I had to slide down this like 20-foot cut bank where the river had cut the bank. I look across the river and here comes a grizzly bear galloping-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, boy.
- LBLuke Bryan
... on the other side of the river. And I'm like... Well, I'd already seen the other two mature ones and I was like, "Well, that's a baby grizzly, that's..." I was like, "That's cute." Dude, that grizzly hits that bank on the other side of that river and jumps about 20 feet in the air and lands in that river.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
It looked like a- a Volkswagen VW Bug hit that river.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- LBLuke Bryan
I take off to the helicopter. All my guys are like, "Get here, get here." A mother and two s- two of the babies were on my tail.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God.
- LBLuke Bryan
And when I got to the helicopter, dude, ruined my whole trip. I couldn't relax. (laughs) That's how scary-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's when it gets scary when you're around the mothers.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh, they're- they're the ones that, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
They fuck everybody up. Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
... in two seconds.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, they don't play any games.
- LBLuke Bryan
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
When they have their cubs with them, they don't take any chances, like, "I'm gonna incapacitate this dude."
- 36:38 – 48:04
Hunting ethics, meat connection, and raising kids in the outdoors
- JRJoe Rogan
What's the problem, what we're dealing with here is ballot biology. It's all people that are very emotional. Most of them live in cities. Before I ever hunted bear, before I ever hunted at all, I was like, "Kill a bear? Why- what an asshole." You don't have to be an asshole to kill a bear. And then you get it, I'm just-
- LBLuke Bryan
I was the same.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
I was kind of the same way.
- JRJoe Rogan
But you probably had more hunting experience than me. I grew up fishing-
- LBLuke Bryan
Well, I had white tail hunting, and I remember, man, you know, being a- a 14-year-old kid shooting a deer and- and having remorse, but then you need to have that remorse too as a hunter.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
You need to understand-
- JRJoe Rogan
You're taking a life.
- LBLuke Bryan
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
And you need to-And I tell my boys that. My boys have grown up in it, seriously, and I'm like, "Hey man, w- hold up."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- LBLuke Bryan
Let's just don't run up to the, run up to it, chuck it in the machine, just, just do a little homage.
- JRJoe Rogan
Respect. Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
Right, so go ahead, but that-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- LBLuke Bryan
But the remorse, go ahead, though.
- JRJoe Rogan
The remorse is important. It's, it's a part of the experience. Like, you have, you are now connected to the food that you're gonna eat.
- LBLuke Bryan
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I think that's what most people don't have, and I think, I think that's bad for us. I think all of human existence has been wrapped around hunting animals, and we hunted them ourselves forever, and then we eventually figured out agriculture. But when we hunt- w- we hunted 'em ourselves, most of the time that humans were human, and we had this deep connection to this animal because this animal was gonna sustain our family. And they used it, they took the cl- the, the, the skin from it and they made all kinds of things. They took the tendons, they made strings for bows, they-
- LBLuke Bryan
And the fur. Gosh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, like the fur. I mean, it's what their clothes were made out of, they ate all the organs, they ate everything. It sustained everybody, and that was how people lived, and then when people stopped living like that, we got a little confused. I know people that eat meat. Like my wife was at dinner with her friends, and, um, the, the, the f- they were from England, and one of the friends said, uh, "Where's your husband?" And she said, "Oh, he's, he's, uh, elk hunting." And, and the guy s- made some sort, while he was cutting a steak, made some sort of like, "Oh, that's atrocious." Like-
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... "Why would you do that?" And she goes, "Why are you eating meat?" You didn't, like y- you paid a supermarket hitman to go kill that fucking steak.
- LBLuke Bryan
Listen.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, this is so stupid, but when you're removed from it culturally, and England is basically removed from it culturally, there's roe deer there and there's some stag.
- LBLuke Bryan
Stag, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
But for the most part, England has a very small hunting population, and I believe bow hunting is actually outlawed there. It's outlawed in a lot of places in Europe. It's outlawed in Scotland. It's outlawed in a lot of places. So there's a, like a deep ignorance as, as to what's going on and what it is, and then they have judgment bec- based on these cultural norms of like... And there's mo- media depictions, media depictions of hunters in movies, they're never the good guys. They're always pieces of shit.
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- 48:04 – 1:16:44
Learning curves: elk calling adrenaline, fly fishing craft, and duck hunting culture
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I've done some wild shit. I'm gonna, I'm gonna send you a video, Jamie, of something that happened last week. So this, this is, uh, the best example of that. This is the best example of that. We had this elk and he was out at about 50 yards. We'd snuck it, snuck in on him. He was over the ridge. At 50 yards we could see the tips of his antlers moving around. I had my sights set at 50 yards, and as my friend was calling him, my friend was at a tree that was about 20 yards from me. He came right into our lap. So it was one of those things where I had him ranged at 50-
- LBLuke Bryan
50 and then boom.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then, and then I see him coming in. He's coming in. I dial in, I range him again at 40, I dial him in, I'm like, "Oh shit, he's coming into our lap." He just kept coming in. Watch this video. This is-
- NANarrator
Do you have it yet?
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, you don't have it yet? Goddamn.
- LBLuke Bryan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
You drop it on me faster?
- JRJoe Rogan
Modern technology. It didn't make it through? Oh, it's still going. Hold on.
- NANarrator
I'm hopefully compressing it to send it through iMessage.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, is that what it is?
- NANarrator
It might be.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, let me... It said it went through. Did it go through?
- NANarrator
I just got it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. Bust out those cigars.
- LBLuke Bryan
You want it a little heavy or mild?
- JRJoe Rogan
Whatever you have. Here, here it goes. Check this out.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh. (sighs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Listen to this. Listen to this, when he comes over the hill and gets angry. (elk calling) Like, when I heard that I was like-
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
... uh-oh, here he comes. So right now he's about 50 yards.
- LBLuke Bryan
What's your heart doing right now?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right now I'm pretty calm 'cause he's at 50 yards.
- LBLuke Bryan
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
But now I'm realizing he's not gonna stop, so I range him again. (bow twanging) Now he's at 40.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
He pauses for a second. (bow twanging) He's staring right at me. I have to stop.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh, yeah, so you're off to the right.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm off to the right and I'm pressed up against a tree, full camo, hiding, in plain sight. So now he's moving out- so now I'm like, "Oh, shit." I'm moving my sight to 20. So now I move my sight to 20 (bow twanging) and I try to figure out a time to draw. So right here I draw, that's when he turns.
- LBLuke Bryan
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
He ni- he sees some movement.
Episode duration: 3:03:27
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